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Old 12-23-2010
Print the different line from two files in unix
Hi all,

I have a two files ... the first file contain "ls -la " output on directory. second file contains " ls -la " output on the same directory but after removing some files from the directory.... how to get the file names that are removed ....... the total no of files are more than 1000 so couldn't compare manually ...

thanks,
firestar
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Old 12-23-2010
Following gives records ONLY in file1
Code:
 
comm -23 file1 file2

# 3  
Old 12-23-2010
Code:
diff file1 file2

or you can get the diff directly from folder.

Code:
diff dir1 dir2

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